ALL across Ireland, in fields, on hillsides and beside ancient ruins, lie sites that many pass every day without ever knowing their story. These places are called cillíní, and they carry immense ...

A MAN has been sentenced for drugs-related offences following an investigation into criminality linked to the New IRA. Ian Cotter from west Belfast was sentenced to a two-month custodial sentence, ...

THE Washington Ireland Program (WIP) class of 2026 was announced this week. US Congressman Tim Kennedy made the announcement during a special event held at the University of Notre Dame’s office in ...

SIX people died on Irish roads during the week around St Patrick’s Day. Gardaí conducted a nationwide policing operation from March 11 to March 18. During that period a total of six people died in ...

TRIBUTES have been paid following the death of one of Ireland’s best-known sports presenters Michael Lyster. Mr Lyster died yesterday morning (March 23) at the age of 71, it was confirmed in a ...

The Comstock Lode in Nevada, uncovered in 1859 by two Irish laborers, ultimately produced more than $500 million worth of silver, a large share of which went to the Irish-American “Big Four” – James ...

The Celtic cross that the Ladies’ Ancient Order of Hibernians Auxiliary dedicated to Great Hunger victims at the Cohasset Cemetery in Massachusetts. Her other books include: Black Abolitionists In ...

Seán MacBride’s career spans the history of independent Ireland. His father was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, when Irish independence was first proclaimed. As a teenager, he fought in ...

It was a summer flood when our draft horse was caught in the river and the river smashed against stones. The sound of it to me was like the turning of locks. It was silage time and the water smelled ...

In 1876, a daring escape from an Australian prison colony by six Fenian prisoners was masterminded by the revolutionary and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly. The sailing triumph of the Catalpa and the ...

The descendants of Irish people sold into slavery in the 1600s live in a close-knit community beset by poverty and ill health. During the winter of 1636, a ship bearing a consignment of 61 men and ...

This exchange in a novel about college sports in the 1920s catches the prejudices that many Americans of the time held toward citizens of Irish-Catholic descent. However, unlike other immigrant groups ...